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New Delhi: Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone on Tuesday said it will acquire a controlling interest in Gangavaram Port Ltd (GPL) from DVS Raju and family for Rs 3,604 crore taking its stake in GPL to 89.6 per...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said it would hear in July the pleas seeking mandatory arrest of NRI husbands for deserting their wives and harassing them for dowry.A bench of Chief Justice Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and...

Guilin: China and Russia have agreed to automatically extend the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation for another five-year term, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.The treaty was signed by then Russian and Chinese leaders Vladimir Putin and Jiang...

Guilin: Russia does not have relations with the European Union as an organization, Brussels destroyed the ties, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi."There are no relations with the European Union as...

Tokyo: Almost 40 percent of people in Japan oppose holding the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in the country's capital of Tokyo this year, according to a poll published by the Kyodo news agency on Sunday.The media outlet conducted...

New Delhi: Telecom operator Bharti Airtel added 6.9 million active users in January, extending its market lead on this count even as Jio's active subscribers tally declined by about 3.4 million, according to TRAI data.With this, Bharti's active subscribers...

Guwahati: NEDA convenor and Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has only Rs 25,000 in cash, bank term deposits of over Rs 50 lakh, and no bonds, shares or insurance policies.The minister, in his affidavit submitted as a BJP...

Aizawl: Mizoram's COVID-19 tally rose to 4,447 on Sunday as a 52-year-old man tested positive for the infection, a health official said.The new patient, who hails from Mamit district, tested positive for COVID-19 during screening at the inter-state border...

Mumbai: Param Bir Singh, replaced as Mumbai Police Commissioner over "unforgivable" lapses in the Mukesh Ambani security scare probe this week, delivered a counterblow of stunning proportions on Saturday, accusing Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of corruption and interference...

New Delhi: The United States and China have indicated no major breakthrough in the first high-level in-person talks between their top diplomats in Alaska that ended on Friday.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi...